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ThePowerOfTheDogReview
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Review – The Power of the Dog

Guest reviewer Rabz has a review of The Power of the Dog, nominated for a whopping 12 Oscars! The main draw to The Power Of The Dog for me was the persistent clamouring of praise for the performance of Benedict Cumberbatch. I hadn’t in fact been wholly over familiar with the work of director Jane

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DriveMyCarReview
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Review – Drive My Car

Guest reviewer Chad Clark has a review of Drive My Car, nominated for four Oscars! If a foreign film with a three-hour runtime sounds like a chore, you may stop reading. Still here? Good. Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Drive My Car centers on a widowed thespian (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who takes a

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DontLookUpReview
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Review – Don’t Look Up

It’s never too early to get a jump on possible Oscar nominations; guest reviewer theseadogsentiment has a review of Don’t Look Up. It is not common to feel refreshed by a movie, but leave it to Adam McKay to run the bath AND be waiting for you with a towel afterward. In my opinion, his

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WestSideStoryReview
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Review – West Side Story (2021)

It’s never too early to get a jump on the potential Oscar nominations: guest reviewer Pasha Ivanov has a look at Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story. This is not an easy movie to review. The difficulty for a reviewer these days lies in not giving away any spoilers. In this case everyone knows

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Spider-Man: No Way Home

Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home follows Peter Parker (Tom Holland) whose identity as Spider-Man is exposed by Mysterio and is framed for his death after the end of Spider-Man Far: From Home. Parker’s life and reputation are turned upside down as it affects everything and everyone he loves. He seeks out Doctor

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Dune2021review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Dune (2021)

Directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on the novel by Frank Herbert, Dune follows the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his

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NoTimeToDieReview
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – James Bond: No Time To Die

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, No Time To Die follows James Bond (Daniel Craig) who is enjoying his now tranquil life with Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux) after leaving active service. However, his peace is short-lived as secrets of her past surface and split the two apart. On his own, Bond is contacted by his old

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shangchi TenRings Review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings follows a young man, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), secretly a martial arts master, who must confront his past when he is drawn into the web of the Ten Rings organization led by his father, Wenwu, aka the Mandarin (Tony Leung). This is another

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FreeGuyReview
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Free Guy

Directed by Shawn Levy, Free Guy takes place in the open-world video game Free City where Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is an NPC working as a bank teller. Thanks to a code developed by programmers Millie (Jodie Comer) and Keys (Joe Keery) inserted into Free City by the publisher Antwan (Taika Waititi), Guy becomes self-aware of

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